Human Resources committee  No.

Human Resources committee  Regarding the complexity of being a service that provides testing for physicians, none of us can predict what tests will be coming on line in the next five years and what certain jurisdictions will be willing to fund. OMA has to agree to fund certain things. For us to do health h

Human Resources committee  In my profession, medical laboratory science, right now about 80% of the students go to university first. They have their B.Sc. and think they're destined for medical school and find out that's not happening. There are very few jobs you can do without getting your next profession

Human Resources committee  Absolutely. They do really well during the pilot funding phase. The most expensive thing to do is create curriculum. There have been several pilot programs that have started and have ceased to exist. British Columbia had one and the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology had

Human Resources committee  I have just a final comment that can't be underestimated. The entry-level salary for a medical laboratory technologist is probably a tenth of what an entry-level physician will make. So to take the same group and suggest that they become medical lab technologists, when they're ex

Human Resources committee  Thank you for having me back. I would like to thank the committee for inviting the Canadian Society for Medical Laboratory Science to appear once again today. My name is Christine Nielsen. I am the executive director for the society, which is located in Hamilton, Ontario. The C

Human Resources committee  I think if it were to move that way on a policy basis, it couldn't be all countries, all professions, and all fields, and it probably shouldn't.

Human Resources committee  In my own profession, medical lab science, we know that probably 70% of people come from Canada's top three of the four source countries, with the exception of China. So for us, that would be an obvious place for us to create something. You've touched on the complexity of it, in

Human Resources committee  Absolutely.

Human Resources committee  For sure.

Human Resources committee  The model I'm most aware of relating to the health professions would be the Australian model. I had an opportunity to go in March with a Canadian delegation of health professionals to look at how they handle their immigration and to share best practices and common challenges. Obv

Human Resources committee  To follow up on that, one of the things that has improved knowledge awareness of many of the members of HEAL is the “going to Canada” portal, which is a requirement in some of the source countries for Canada. Someone going to Canada has to go to a Canadian orientation program.

Human Resources committee  I'd love to take this one. There was a study funded in Manitoba in the nursing field. It's a terrible name, but it was called the Retention of Older Workers Project. The only group that objected to it was the nurses' union. It was intended to capture people ready to leave the

Human Resources committee  Manitoba, yes.

Human Resources committee  The challenges for internationally educated health professionals in the integration and credentialling process include the time and personal resources needed to meet the demands. Quite often, internationally educated health professionals are older than our domestic graduates, and